On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:43 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Two things here.
> >
> > 1) Some macros for threading and the iterator now require a trailing
> > semicolon. This change will be reverted before the 1.7 release so that
> scipy
> > 0.10 will compile, but because it is desirable in the long term it would
> be
> > helpful if folks maintaining c extensions using numpy would try compiling
> > them against current development and adding the semicolon where needed.
> The
> > added semicolon will be backward compatible with earlier versions of
> numpy.
> >
> > 2) It is proposed to deprecate all of the macros in the old_defines.h
> file
> > and require the use of their replacements. Numpy itself will have made
> this
> > change after pull-189 is merged and getting rid of the surplus macros
> will
> > help clean up the historical detritus that has built up over the years,
> > easing maintenance, clarifying code, and making the eventual transition
> to
> > 2.0 a bit easier. There is a sed script in the tools directory as part of
> > the pull request that can be used to make the needed substitutions.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>> Long needed cleanup, thanks for taking care of this.
>> Is there a need to review anything, or has this already been merged ?
>>It hasn't been merged yet. The main question has been if/how we should
deprecate the old macros. The announcement also serves notice ;)
I've got a patch doing this for scipy put haven't put it up yet.
Chuck
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